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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:23:25 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/31] perf, x86: Basic Haswell PMU support
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 05:14:18PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> But then what happens if I pass a raw value that sets those bits on a
> processor without TSX?

It should be filtered out. It could #GP otherwise. I thought I checked 
that, but will test again.

-Andi
> 
> On Sep 28, 2012 4:58 PM, "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

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